Software DevOps Engineer - Gen Software and ML software

The ePlane Company is at the forefront of India's urban air mobility revolution. Incubated at IIT Madras, we are a deep-tech startup dedicated to designing and building the world's most compact electric flying taxi. Our mission is to make door-to-door flying a reality, drastically reducing commute times and decongesting our cities for a cleaner, greener future. We're a passionate team of engineers, designers, and visionaries working on cutting-edge technology, and we're looking for brilliant minds to help us take flight.

We are looking for a person with an understanding of the tooling and lifecycle of aerospace software systems algorithms including taking them from prototype to production. The selected candidate will be responsible for ensuring aircraft configuration compliance with required regulatory, Industry, and organisation requirements. You will bridge the gap between modern software development, rigorous safety critical compliance, and Gen AI-driven coding. This also involves work that makes our entire CI/CD pipeline from general software services to safety-critical AI/ML models robust, scalable, compliant, and qualified for regulated engineering processes. In addition, the person will also work as a focal point for configuration baselining, Change Management tracking, and ensuring airborne software is fully defined, traceable, and auditable 

• Baseline Control: Establish, maintain, and audit software configuration baselines, build records, and release packages for airborne and ground-support software.
  

• Execute Software Quality Assurance (SQA) activities and audits across certification and production programs (airborne and non-airborne software), including process improvements, lifecycle audits, and compliance verification
  

• Manage and maintain Software Quality Assurance records in accordance with applicable standards including DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4754B
  

• Conduct internal audits of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes, data, and traceability to ensure regulatory compliance and identify process gaps
  

• Perform Root Cause and Corrective Action (RCCA) investigations for internal nonconformities, documenting findings and recommending systemic improvements
  

• Change Control Board (CCB): Facilitate the Change Control Board process, tracking Change Requests (CRs) from inception to deployment.
  

• Establish and operate a recurring governance review process across all deployed capabilities
  

• CI/CD Architecture: Design, implement, and maintain secure, automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines 
  

• Automated Testing Integration: Integrate static code analysis, unit testing, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing tools directly into the build pipeline.
  

• 4+ years with production systems experience with a focus on Software Configuration management in a regulated environment
  

• CI/CD design with strong understanding of tools like Jenkins 
  

• Proven experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines for both non-ML software and ML models
  

• Advanced mastery of Git (including branching architectures adapted for safety-critical releases)
  

• Familiarity with DO-178B/C software considerations or equivalent rigorous standards.
  

• Experience working with ALM tools 
  

• Containerised deployment (Docker, Kubernetes)
  

• Experience deploying compilers and build tools (C/C++, CMake, Make, GCC) typical of embedded systems.
  

• Experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) in secure, air-gapped environments.
  

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies adapted for regulated, safety-critical lifecycles.
  

• Experience with automated test execution on physical target hardware.